Award: George Frisvold, Ashley Kerna, Dari Duval, University of Arizona, Outstanding Team Award for work as Cooperative Extension Economic Impact Analysis Team
University of California, Berkeley
Award: Peter Berck, Gothenburg University, Degree of Honorary Doctor
Visitor: Ruslana Rachel Palatnik, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Management, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel, and Deputy Director, Natural Resource and Environmental Research Center (NRERC), University of Haifa, Israel, Visiting Scholar, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley August, 2015-August, 2016
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Appointment Change: Cyrus Ramezani, Department Chair
Honorary Position: Christiane Schroeter, Editorial team, Journal of Food Distribution Research
Return from Leave: Christiane Schroeter
Colorado State University
New Appointment: Becca Jablonski, Special Assistant Professor
Awards: Misti Sharp, Colorado State University, Robert Young Water Research Award; Alex Maas, Colorado State University, Lee Gray Teaching Award; Jada Thompson, Colorado State University, Jack Smith Agribusiness Award
Cornell University
Awards: Shanjun Li, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Early Achievement Award; Andrew Novakovic, New York State Association of County Agricultural Agents, Cathy Wickswat Award
Iowa State University
New Appointments: Joshua Rosenbloom, Professor and Department Chair; John Crespi, Professor Gabriel Lade, Assistant Professor; Ivan Rudik, Assistant Professor Wendong Zhang
Honorary Position: Catherine Kling, Member of the National Academy of Sciences
University of Kentucky
Awards: Wuyang Hu, University of Kentucky Gamma Sigma Delta, George Mitchell Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate Students
Appointment Change: Lee Meyer, Post-retirement
University of Maryland
Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Jeffrey Ferris, PhD, Project Manager, ECONorthwest: Joseph Maher, PhD, Computational Post-Doc Fellow, SESYNC (Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center), Annapolis; Anand Murugesan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Central European University, Budapest; Simone Pieralli, PhD, Post-Doc, Humboldt University, Berlin; Magda Tsaneva, PhD, Assistant Professor, Clark University
Mississippi State University
Award: Yunkyung Lee, Food Distribution Research Society, Richarson-Applebaum Award - Best MS Thesis
Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Louis Holbrook, MS, Economic Research Analyst, Staplcotn; Joonghyun "Cheetos" Hwang, MS, Chief Economist, Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
University of Missouri
Award: Thomas G. Johnson and Judith I. Stallmann, Andres Copus and Philomena De Lima (eds.), Routledge, 2015 Best Book Award from the Regional Studies Association, UK
Retirement: Handy Williamson, 14 years of service
Visitor: Xiangping Jia, Professor, Northwest Agriculture & Forest University, China, Visiting Research Scholar, November 5, 2015 – April 30, 2016
Purdue University
Honorary Position: Thomas Hertel, US-EPA Science Advisory Board for Economy-wide Modeling of Environmental Regulations
Leave: Benjamin Gramig, Oregon State University, 9 months
Visitors: Dr. Carlos Marques, and Dr. Phil Abbott, Visiting Scholars
Texas A&M University
Award: Joe Outlaw, Cooperative Extension and the USDA National Institution of Food and Agriculture, 2015 Excellence in Extension Award
Texas Tech University
Appointment Change: Shaikh Rahman, Associate Professor
Leave: Conrad Lyford, Fulbright in Ethiopia, Spring 2015
